Cetacean, sea turtle, and seabird visual observations using line-transect survey methods from ships and aircraft during the Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS) surveys from 2017 to 2020

Description

As part of the Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GOMMAPPS), the NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) conducted seasonal shipboard surveys of the U.S. oceanic waters of the Gulf of Mexico out to the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and aerial surveys of U.S. continental shelf waters (up to the 200-m isobath) from 2017 to 2020. During all cetacean and sea turtle surveys and for the seabird data collected from the plane, a two-team independent visual observer approach with distance sampling was used to estimate the detection probabilities, abundance, and characterize spatial distribution of the species or groups of species. For seabird data collected from the ship, a single team using standard, transect-based methodology was utilized. This collection of datasets includes cetacean, sea turtle, and seabird visual observation data and effort points with surveying conditions that can be used in abundance and density modeling per visual line-transect survey protocols. These datasets may also include opportunistic data and photographs of cetaceans and other taxa such as manatees, billfish, sharks, sea rays, sunfish, and other marine fishes, sargassum, and algal blooms. Raw and processed files from conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) casts, and expendable bathythermographs (XBT), performed during ship surveys may also be available for some surveys. This collection (GOMMAPPS) includes a total of 6 SEFSC surveys, including 3 ship-based and 3 aerial surveys. FWS surveys onboard NOAA vessels of opportunity (14) and the (4) aerial surveys were combined and archived under 2 separate accession numbers. All data can be individually accessed through the Granule Search below.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GOMMAPPS
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page http://www.usgs.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.usgs.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.boem.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.doi.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.boem.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.usgs.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.mslabs.noaa.gov
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GoMMAPPS) https://www.boem.gov/gommapps
0 Institution web page http://www.boem.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Resource link https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ba9378fe4b08583a5ca0937
0 Marine Mammal Research Surveys in NOAA's Southeast Region https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/population-assessments/marine-mammal-research-surveys-noaas-southeast-region
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Institution web page https://cimas.rsmas.miami.edu/
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Institution web page http://www.usgs.gov
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AGOMMAPPS.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Institution web page http://www.usgs.gov
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2023. GCMD Keywords, Version 17. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://www.usgs.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.usgs.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.boem.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://cimas.rsmas.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.usgs.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 Institution web page https://www.noaa.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.doi.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.miami.edu/
0 Institution web page http://www.boem.gov/
0 Institution web page https://www.usgs.gov/
0 Institution web page http://www.mslabs.noaa.gov
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
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0 related report https://doi.org/10.25923/7hbn-jp82
0 GoMMAPPS website https://www.boem.gov/gommapps
0 Institution web page http://www.boem.gov/
0 Marine Mammal Research Surveys in NOAA's Southeast Region https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/population-assessments/marine-mammal-research-surveys-noaas-southeast-region
0 Institution web page https://www.sefsc.noaa.gov
0 related dataset https://doi.org/10.5066/p9c56ay1
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/GOMMAPPS
0 Search for data granules belonging to this collection (a granule is the smallest aggregation of data that can be independently described and retrieved). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/granule/geoportal/?from=0&size=10&esdsl=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22bool%22%3A%7B%22must%22%3A%5B%7B%22query_string%22%3A%7B%22analyze_wildcard%22%3Atrue%2C%22query%22%3A%22fileid%3AGOMMAPPS.*%22%7D%7D%5D%7D%7D%7D#searchPanel
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  • usfws quest kodiak 100 amphibious aircraft
  • manta ray
  • great egret
  • ziphius cavirostris
  • chipping sparrow
  • thalasseus maximus
  • fea's petrel
  • setophaga virens
  • phalaropus lobatus
  • ardea herodias
  • mourning dove
  • aythya collaris
  • magnolia warbler
  • a679de
  • zenaida macroura
  • mergus serrator
  • rice’s whale (balaenoptera ricei)
  • palm warbler
  • petrel/shearwater sp
  • sperm whale
  • yellow-rumped warbler
  • dumetella carolinensis
  • 8ct13n
  • tyrannus tyrannus
  • hardshell
  • pomarine jaeger
  • pygmy killer whale
  • sargassum
  • parasitic jaeger
  • university of miami’s cooperative institute for marine and atmospheric studies (cimas)
  • red-billed tropicbird
  • eu7cxu
  • pygmy or dwarf sperm whale
  • calidris alba
  • sternula antillarum
  • ruby-throated hummingbird
  • yellow-breasted chat
  • gray catbird
  • loon sp
  • roseate tern
  • pantropical spotted dolphin (stenella attenuata)
  • great shearwater
  • contopus virens
  • dermochelys coriacea
  • mottled duck
  • melon-headed or pygmy killer or false killer whale
  • aythya affinis
  • hooded merganser
  • atlantic spotted dolphin
  • cattle egret
  • hooded warbler
  • sooty/bridled tern sp
  • brown booby
  • setophaga magnolia
  • barn swallow
  • hammerhead shark
  • bobolink
  • kogia sp.
  • kemp's ridley turtle
  • cliff swallow
  • chuck-will's-widow
  • rock pigeon
  • puffinus lherminieri
  • audubon's shearwater
  • eurasian collared-dove
  • platalea ajaja
  • rhincodon typus
  • hirundo rustica
  • setophaga tigrina
  • calidris fuscicollis
  • streptopelia decaocto
  • tern sp
  • clymene dolphin
  • balaenoptera ricei
  • sterna hirundo
  • melon-headed or pygmy killer whale
  • common loon
  • phalacrocorax brasilianus
  • 9wk7gk
  • m0476t
  • merlin
  • mesoplodon europeaus
  • common bottlenose dolphin
  • green sea turtle (chelonia mydas)
  • spinner dolphin
  • northern shoveler
  • pluvialis squatarola
  • american white pelican
  • cory's shearwater
  • kemp's ridley sea turtle
  • anas acuta
  • long-tailed jaeger
  • billfish sp.
  • heron/egret sp
  • cardellina pusilla
  • stenella sp.
  • phaethon lepturus
  • coccyzus erythropthalmus
  • pilot whales
  • little blue heron
  • chelonia mydas
  • white-winged dove
  • asio flammeus
  • r/v gordon gunter
  • egretta tircolor
  • green heron
  • species distribution models
  • masked booby
  • american redstart
  • grebe sp
  • indigo bunting
  • sooty tern
  • oceanodroma castro
  • icteria virens
  • onchyoprion anaethetus
  • aircraft
  • larus marinus
  • progne subis
  • tricolored heron
  • bonaparte's gull
  • oceanic front
  • band-rumped storm-petrel
  • yellow-headed blackbird
  • blue-winged warbler
  • sei or rice's whale
  • longline fishing gear
  • black skimmer
  • stenella coeruleoalba
  • brown-headed cowbird
  • green sea turtle
  • icterus galbula
  • leatherback sea turtle (dermochelys coriacea)
  • unid. ray
  • p. electra/f. attenuata
  • loggerhead sea turtle
  • grampus griseus
  • melanitta americana
  • unid. large fish
  • p. electra/f. attenuata/p. crassidens
  • arenaria interpres
  • red-necked phalarope
  • caretta caretta
  • stercorarius maccormicki
  • gavia immer
  • stenella attenuata
  • globicephala macrorhynchus
  • leach's storm-petrel
  • aythya valisineria
  • false killer whale
  • r/v pisces
  • redhead
  • puffinus gravis
  • american kestrel
  • calidris mauri
  • t. truncatus/s. frontalis
  • common tern
  • black-throated blue warbler
  • shelf common bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus)
  • lepidochelys kempii
  • alpgmn
  • thalasseus sandvicensis
  • osprey
  • whale shark
  • white-winged scoter
  • baltimore oriole
  • chaetura pelagica
  • parkesia motacilla
  • steno bredanensis
  • south polar skua
  • red-throated loon
  • population abundance
  • leatherback sea turtle
  • sterna forsteri
  • calidris pusilla
  • coryphaena hippurus
  • onchyoprion fuscatus
  • arymdb
  • ziphiidae
  • gervais' beaked whale
  • xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
  • flying fish
  • egretta caerulea
  • loggerhead turtle
  • melon-headed whale
  • oceanography
  • bottlenose dolphin
  • lesser yellowlegs
  • stenella clymene
  • anous stolidus
  • sula leucogaster
  • duck sp
  • scaup sp
  • oceanites oceanicus
  • fulica americana
  • tropical kingbird
  • dendrocygna autumnalis
  • calidris minutilla
  • turkey vulture
  • surf scoter
  • red tide - intermittent
  • clymene dolphin (stenella clymene)
  • veery
  • ring-necked duck
  • killer whale
  • black-crowned night-heron
  • tyrannus melancholicus
  • northern gannet
  • delphinidae
  • roseate spoonbill
  • bufflehead
  • caspian tern
  • teal sp
  • common nighthawk
  • magnificent frigatebird
  • manta sp
  • fish
  • pseudorca crassidens
  • ovenbird
  • blackfish (orcinus orca
  • great blue heron
  • eastern wood-pewee
  • species distribution
  • phalarope sp
  • odontoceti
  • lophodytes cucullatus
  • great black-backed gull
  • setophaga caerulescens
  • calomectris diomedea
  • least tern
  • passerina cyanea
  • tursiops truncatus
  • unid. shark
  • common yellowthroat
  • aythya marila
  • sula sula
  • seiurus aurocapilla
  • american coot
  • gavia stellata
  • gl852k
  • butorides virescens
  • rhyncops niger
  • leatherback
  • puffinus puffinus
  • western sandpiper
  • anas fulvigula
  • white-rumped sandpiper
  • mycteria americana
  • wood stork
  • pelecanus occidentalis
  • kogia sima
  • striped dolphin
  • catharus fuscescens
  • melanitta fusca
  • rice's whale
  • leiothlypis ruficapilla
  • coccyzus americanus
  • parkesia noveboracensis
  • morus bassanus
  • spinner dolphin (stenella longirostris)
  • semipalmated sandpiper
  • beaked whales (ziphius and mesoplodon spp.)
  • falco sparverius
  • eretmochelys imbricata
  • egretta alba
  • risso's dolphin
  • bridled tern
  • stelgidopteryx serripennis
  • red phalarope
  • black-bellied whisting-duck
  • tachycineta bicolor
  • protonotaria citrea
  • oceanodroma leucorboa
  • dabbling duck sp
  • leucophaeus atricilla
  • sandwich tern
  • scarlet tanager
  • spizella passerina
  • common bottlenose or atlantic spotted dolphin
  • balaenoptera edeni
  • larus argentatus
  • zenaida asiatica
  • west indian manatee
  • columba livia
  • antrostomus carolinensis
  • cuvier's beaked whale
  • scoter sp
  • black-billed cuckoo
  • stenella frontalis
  • manx shearwater
  • black tern
  • northern waterthrush
  • striped dolphin (stenella coeruleoalba)
  • whimbrel
  • boat (fishing)
  • yellow-billed cuckoo
  • nashville warbler
  • falco columbarius
  • short-finned pilot whale
  • white-tailed tropicbird
  • hydroprogne caspia
  • patagioenas leucocephala
  • pantropical spotted dolphin
  • other
  • bryde's whale
  • sei or rice's or fin whale
  • pelecanus erythrorhynchos
  • bank swallow
  • brown pelican
  • physeter macrocephalus
  • cathartes aura
  • royal tern
  • feresa attenuata and pseudorca crassidens combined)
  • risso’s dolphin (grampus griseus)
  • green turtle
  • oil slick
  • yellow-crowned night-heron
  • black-bellied plover
  • orchard oriole
  • red-footed booby
  • shelf atlantic spotted dolphin (stenella frontalis)
  • sperm whale (physeter macrocephalus)
  • setophaga citrina
  • rough-toothed dolphin
  • prothonotary warbler
  • pandion haliaetus
  • geothlypis trichas
  • pilot whales (globicephala sp.)
  • vermivora cyanoptera
  • forage fish
  • peponocephala electra
  • jaeger sp
  • chroicocephalus philadelphia
  • neotropic cormorant
  • blue-winged teal
  • gull sp
  • red tide - sparse
  • peregrine falcon
  • gull-billed tern
  • black-capped petrel
  • lesser scaup
  • petrochelidon pyrrhonota
  • loggerhead sea turtle (caretta caretta)
  • b. borealis/ricei
  • snowy egret
  • canvasback
  • spotted sandpiper
  • anas strepera
  • sanderling
  • eudocimus albus
  • globicephala sp.
  • oceanic common bottlenose dolphin (tursiops truncatus)
  • lagenodelphis hosei
  • stenella longirostris
  • forster's tern
  • trichechus manatus
  • pygmy or dwarf sperm whales (kogia spp.)
  • leatherback turtle
  • chordeiles minor
  • kemp's ridley sea turtle (lepidochelys kempii)
  • hawksbill sea turtle
  • herring gull
  • balaenoptera borealis/ricei/physalus
  • magnificient frigatebird
  • dolichonyx oryzivorus
  • stercorarius parasiticus
  • pterodroma feae
  • stercorarius longicaudus
  • blackpoll warbler
  • kemp's ridley
  • yellow warbler
  • laughing gull
  • louisiana waterthrush
  • short-eared owl
  • northern pintail
  • aythya americana
  • pech82
  • trichodesmium
  • stenellid dolphin
  • melanitta perspicillata
  • swordfish
  • greater scaup
  • purple martin
  • bucephala albeola
  • dwarf sperm whale
  • double-crested cormorant
  • icterus spurius
  • gelochelidon nilotica
  • cape may warbler
  • fraser's dolphin
  • setophaga coronata
  • mahi mahi
  • red-breasted merganser
  • phalacrocorax auritus
  • sterna dougallii
  • larus delawarensis
  • gadwall
  • sulid sp
  • ruddy turnstone
  • black scoter
  • brown boody
  • red tide - continuous
  • tringa flavipes
  • turtles
  • sooty/bridled tern
  • gulf of mexico marine assessment program for protected species (gommapps)
  • riparia riparia
  • least sandpiper
  • mola mola
  • wilson's warbler
  • mesoplodon sp.
  • setophaga palmarum
  • bulbulcus ibia
  • egretta thula
  • setophaga petechia
  • setophaga striata
  • phaethon aethereus
  • fish_rays
  • lesser black-backed gull
  • tree swallow
  • white ibis
  • spatula discors
  • orcinus orca
  • balaenoptera sp.
  • oceanic atlantic spotted dolphin (stenella frontalis)
  • piranga olivacea
  • physeter microcephalus
  • tuna sp.
  • eastern kingbird
  • brown noddy
  • feresa attenuata
  • sunfish (mola mola)
  • northern rough-winged swallow
  • chimney swift
  • larus fuscus
  • sula dactylatra
  • dehavilland dhc-6 twin otter aircraft
  • storm-petrel sp
  • black-throated green warbler
  • actitis macularius
  • chlidonias niger
  • nyctanassa violacea
  • archilochus colubris
  • setophaga ruticilla
  • vulture sp
  • sea/diving duck sp
  • fregata magnificens
  • ring-billed gull
  • numenius phaeopus
  • loggerhead
  • stercorarius pomarinus
  • wilson's storm-petrel
  • thin line
  • r/v oregon ii
  • anas clypeata
  • sphyrnidae sp
  • falco peregrinus
  • molothrus ater
  • nycticorax nycticorax
  • fish_sharks
  • phalaropus fulicarius
  • white-crowned pigeon
  • pterodrama hasitata

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